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MINISTRY FOR AN ECOLOGICAL AND INCLUSIVE TRANSITION / MINISTRY OF TERRITORIAL COHESION

From eco-design to a circular economy: a French way to engage stakeholders?

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2015 Circular Economy Package

2015 Energy Transition for Green Growth Act

Directive 2008/98/EC on waste

December 17, 2010 order

2018 Circular Economy Roadmap

Synergies between European and national policies

EU action plan for a Circular Economy

Pre-demolition assessment guidelines for the construction sector

Voluntary industry-wide recycling protocol for construction and demolition waste

Core indicators for the assessment of buildings’ lifecycle, environmental performance, and incentives for their implementation

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French Regulation on analysis of waste generation before demolition

May 2011 Decree (Grenelle laws)

The project manager in charge of waste shall designate an independent auditor to:

Assess the quantity and type of materials

Identify waste recovery and recycling clusters according to materials and site

location

Track and trace the final waste location

The Circular Economy Roadmap enhances the audit implementation:

Increases awareness of stakeholders

Clarifies (and maybe broadens) the operation’s scope

Strengthens auditor’s training, verifies auditor’s skills

Implements government authorities’ surveillance and monitoring

Les principes méthodologiques Action 1: Mandatory pre-demolition waste audit

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1/ French “Green Deals”

Established between the Ministry and the industrial sector on a voluntary basis (Dutch model)

Mutual commitments to improve waste recycling rate on the basis of existing laws and rules

By sectors: inert mineral waste, plaster, flat glass, concrete, wood waste used in the cement

plants

Partnership-based approach

Provide support for good practices for construction and demolition waste disposal

Share feedback

Provide guidelines for the private sector

Develop training/awareness for project managers

2/ Other actions

National project Recybeton: concrete recycling

Certification process in the private sector (HQE-GBC, BBCA, …),

SOGED : Voluntary protocol for the management and disposal of demolition waste

Waste treatment sites cartography

…

Les principes méthodologiques Action 2: Waste management protocol

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In 2016, France launched a national trial phase for new construction (residential + office buildings) in

order to prepare the future environmental regulation (after RT2012)

How can we improve construction performance on the basis of products and buildings eco-conception

tools (LCA assessment)?

Les principes méthodologiques Action 3: Core indicators to assess building performance

A technical baseline was established and shared by a large panel of

stakeholders

This baseline lays down the rules for: Energy calculation

Environmental assessment (definition of assumptions for the LCA of

buildings)

The baseline is available here

www.batiment-energiecarbone.fr

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Greenhouse gas emission related to energy use and

embedded carbon in construction products and devices

Les principes méthodologiques Technical baseline – Carbon

Reference study period

50 years for all types of buildings Based on a LCA environmental assessment

All environmental impacts are calculated (multi-

criteria assessment – NF EN 15804+A1 / PEP 3rd

edition and NF EN 15978)

For each step of the building’s life cycle

(multi-steps assessment)

Goals

Limit the transfer of impacts between the various steps of the LCA

Identify drivers to reduce environmental impact

Prerequisites

A repeatable assessment

An operating/quick and reliable assessment

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Which input data for the environmental assessment?

EPD

(of devices and products)

if available

Default penalized values

as substitutes of EPD

Fixed values

for the footprint

of energy

Les principes méthodologiques Technical baseline - Carbon

French authorities have two goals:

Increase the amount of EPD (NF EN 15804+A1 / PEP 3rd edition with an independent third party review)

provided by industrials

Improve data quality and consistency through the environmental building assessment methodology

Industrials French Ministry

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Which assessment database?

Les principes méthodologiques Technical baseline - Carbon

The INIES database is run by the supervisory board and the technical committee

The supervisory board ensures that the database operates ethically and professionally

The technical committee oversees the collection and processing of data as well as database content updates

Environmental and health

reference data for building

1 database – 2 reviewing programs

INIES for FDES (EPD of products)

PEP ecopassport (EPD of equipment)

EPD are verified by independent third party reviewers

Quality? 1) A procedure exists to control reviewers’ skills (managed by the programs) Professional experience (professional 4 years, construction sector 2 years, LCA practice, EPD, critical review, verification in construction sector…) Proficiency testing Renewal every 3 years

2) Programs may arbitrate verification conflicts

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INIES Base

EDP

Default values

Fixed values

LCA

building softwares Compatible with technical baseline

connected - numerical data

E+C- Buildings database

Collects all LCA buildings

operations

engineering consultant

Designers &

LCA

consultants

Industrials

1 - 2 days operating assessment

• Human skills

• Digital data

• LCA Softwares

Contractingo

wner

Les principes méthodologiques How to use digital EPD for building LCA?

Ministry

The French technical organisation makes it possible to share the responsibilities and skills among a chain of

stakeholders up to the LCA building’s final goal

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Vers une règlementation environnementale Synergies LEVEL(S) / E+C-

Consistency

Voluntary test phase (1.5 - 2 years)

Common language to track the levels of sustainability performances over the whole lifecycle

Quantification of multiple indicators (not just GHG emissions)

Allowing businesses to start with a good foundation & practice transfer

Good starting point for existing standards/rules

Possible use at different stages of a building project

E+C- specificities

Regulatory framework/baseline (RT2012)

Levels for both Energy and Carbon

Global cost assessment

Massification: support of a future rule, stability needs in methods and data

Overall consistency for the Energy and assessment of LCA indicators

Easy transfer of E+C- buildings in Levels with some adjustments (bridges)

Opportunity for sharing feedback

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